FREE SPECIAL EDITION WHITE PAPER: Augmenting an Enterprise-Wide HIT System with a Best-of-Breed Anatomic Pathology LIS

Your AP Lab’s Information System Commute: When is ‘Taking the Bus’ More Flexible than ‘Driving Your Car’?

The Dark Report is pleased to offer this FREE White Paper providing you with a detailed discussion on the considerations of investing in a best-of-breed anatomic pathology-specific laboratory information system, and the reasons why even a solid enterprise-wide EHR and/or LIS solution may be insufficient for the complexities of your anatomic pathology (AP) laboratory and its distinct needs in terms of workflow, data mining, imaging and results formats.

The U.S. healthcare system is undergoing unprecedented change due to major healthcare reform initiatives, accompanied by dramatic new capabilities in health information technology (HIT). Clinical diagnostic laboratories, anatomic pathology laboratories, hospitals and healthcare systems now need, or are being required, to implement HIT to leverage health data capabilities, streamline workflow, improve efficiency, and increase competitiveness and cost effectiveness.

It is expected that healthcare institution administrators must evaluate the overall HIT requirements of the enterprise, but they also should take into consideration the HIT needs of the individual departments and laboratories of the institution, and how those needs jibe with the requirements of the institution’s clients.

Although enterprise-wide EHRs may provide an LIS module sufficient for the needs of the general clinical diagnostic laboratory, these same EHRs often do not meet the discrete needs of individual departments, such as AP laboratories. A potential solution to this challenge is to invest in a best-of-breed anatomic pathology-specific laboratory information system, which allows the enterprise to not only work effectively with an institution-wide EHR system, but also serve the needs of the individual laboratories and departments.

To better assimilate the challenges of selecting either or both an enterprise-wide health information system and a purpose-specific laboratory information system, and how augmenting an enterprise-wide HIT system with a best-of-breed APLIS can result in improved quality, increased efficiency, and enhanced patient care, download your FREE copy of “Augmenting an Enterprise-Wide HIT System with a Best-of-Breed Anatomic Pathology LIS.”